Amazon Studios will be turning author Lee Child’s Jack Reacher into a big-budget drama series with the streamer officially handing out a straight to series order. Nick Santora (Prison Break) will serve as showrunner on the Amazon series which will be based on Child’s best-selling global book series, with the first season adapting the first […]
Several months after the Grease prequel film Summer Loving was announced, HBO Max has handed out a straight-to-series order for a spinoff musical of the classic film titled Grease: Rydell High. While Summer Loving will recount the terribly romantic Summer affair between John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John’s characters, Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson, Rydell High […]
Charlie Hunnam (Pacific Rim, Sons Of Anarchy) will return to television to lead Apple’s sweeping international drama series Shantaram which has been given a green light to go to series. Based on Gregory David Roberts’ best-selling novel, Apple aquired the rights last year to develop for straight-to-series consideration. Robert’s sequel novel,The Mountain Shadow, is also […]
USA Network has cancelled the Ryan Phillippe-led drama series Shooter, based on the 2007 Mark Wahlberg feature film of the same name, after three seasons. The series endured various external challenges during its three-season run, but the recent season ranked as the lowest-rated drama on the network with 1.5 million overall viewers and less than […]
After five years of leading the newly relaunched Paramount Television division, Amy Powell is out as president. Her dismissal (as covered in THR) was revealed Thursday via an internal memo from Paramount CEO Jim Gianopulos in which he outlined “multiple individuals” who raised “concerns around comments” made by the executive in a “professional setting, which […]
Hulu announced today that Golden Globe Award-winning actor Hugh Laurie has joined the cast of Hulu’s Original limited series Catch-22 from Paramount Television, Anonymous Content, George Clooney and Grant Heslov. Hugh Laurie has been cast as Major de Coverley in the limited series. Major de Coverley is squadron executive officer on Pianosa air base. A […]
TV series producer Bryan Fuller has exited one of his series again– this time Amazing Stories reboot in development at Apple. Bones producer Hart Hanson, who had partnered with Fuller, has also exited the anthology drama with Universal Television now searching for a showrunner. Fuller’s departure is said to be amicable and due to creative differences. […]
The first promo for Paramount Television’s Heathers reboot not only trots out alpha female Heather Chandler (Melanie Field), it puts the “grand” in the queen bee’s grand entrance. What’s more, the teaser wisely pays homage to the beloved 1988 black comedy by immediately letting Veronica Sawyer (Grace Victoria Cox, picking up Winona Ryder’s croquet mallet) […]
Sean Astin (Stranger Things Season 2, The Lord of the Rings, The Strain, The Goonies) is set to star as Theodore Roosevelt, the Police Commissioner for New York City, in TNT‘s The Alienist, the eagerly-anticipated series based on the Anthony Award-winning New York Times bestseller by Caleb Carr. Astin joins fellow series regulars Daniel Brühl (Rush, […]
Syfy has their sights set on adapting another classic science fiction novel that many have grokked over the years. Robert Heinlein‘s Stranger in a Strange Land is in development as a series from Paramount Television and Universal Cable Productions. Stranger in a Strange Land was published in 1961, two years after Heinlein’s equally iconic Starship Troopers. The […]
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